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HIGHLIGHTS

EVERY STUDENT

SHOULD KNOW

Check out our list of important

phone numbers, when and where to
get food on campus and what campus
services available to students.

Trevecca names new chaplain

Shawna Songer Gaines comes to Trevecca with a vision, ready to learn,

after Tim Green stepped down as university chaplain.

IVE ALWAYS HAD A

PASSION
FOR GIVING

VOICES TO THE
VOICELESS.

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NEWS

Attendance
policy claried

-Shawna Songer Gaines, chaplain

Black

boar
d

Class attendance at Trevecca will

now be tracked on Blackboard via
a new program called Qwickly.
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NEWS

TNU Events app

revamped for 2016
Trevecca SGA is revamping its use of
the TNU Events app to promote campus
activities, track attendance and allow
users to customize campus social life.

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Shawna Songer Gaines leads Trevecca students in worship. Photo by Annalizia Cordova.
BY Bailey Basham
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

For Shawna Songer Gaines,

the first year in her new role as
university chaplain wont be to
make major changes, but to be
a student alongside those she is
pastoring.
My philosophy in every new
position Ive ever entered is that
the first year, you change and
adapt just as much as you need to
be able to fit your strengths, but

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Brodrick Thomas, coordinator of student engagement and diversity, speaks to a current student at the
start of a new year. Photo by Annalizia Cordova.

day on the job was August 1.

Its already been such an
exciting start, said Gaines. Just
recently, we had this meeting with
the discipleship leaders, and I could
immediately tell there was this
connection and that they had such
incredible hearts for ministering
with studentsIm so grateful for
that. At the end of the night, they
asked if they could pray for me,
and they all stopped what they
were doing and laid hands on me.

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First generation Trevecca grad hired as diversity coordinator

BY Bailey Basham
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

TNU Events App

SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

you dont make any major changes

until youve learned everything
there is to learn. In the second
year, thats when you can begin
to reshape and reimagine, said
Gaines. For this year, I really
just want to be a great student,
learner, partner with this campus
community. I feel like I have a lot
to learn from students, staff and
faculty.
Gaines accepted the role after
Tim Green stepped down from the
position in May. Her first official

When Brodrick Thomas was younger, it

was his dream to play football at Auburn. For
Thomas, however, getting through school
wasnt easy.
My mom dropped out of junior high
school, so she didnt have any education
and didnt really understand it very much.
My dad died when I was in fth grade, and
she had to take on multiple jobs to keep us
fed and under shelter. She didnt have the

knowledge to help me, but she was always a

strong advocate of education, said Thomas.
When I rst went to college, my mom had
no idea of how to help me in any way.
Thomas got into Auburn and made it
onto the team, and though he was able to
graduate, he was removed from the team
because of academic performance.
Thomas knows there are studentssome
just like him and others struggling under

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Trevecca welcomes new

womens basketball coach
Chad Hibdon
replaces
Treveccas most
successful
womens
basketball
coach to date.

BY Andrew Preston
SPORTS EDITOR

The new Lady Trojans basketball coach has

some big shoes to ll.
Chad Hibdon takes the helm of the womens
basketball team this year after the departure of
Gary Van Atta, the coach with the most wins in
Lady Trojans basketball history.
I want to be here and establish a great
program at Trevecca, and Im looking forward to
doing that for many, many years to come, said
Hibdon.

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Trevecca hosts presidential debate viewing

party to inspire more students to vote in 2016
BY Hannah Pollok
STAFF WRITER

In just 48 days, Americans will elect

a new president.
The Oce of Student Development

and Treveccas Student Government

Association (SGA) want students to be
prepared and involved.
Two events are planned this week to

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UPDATE

Updates to iWork program now include

o-campus employment opportunities
Changes in the iWork program at Trevecca now allow students
enrolled in the program to seek employment with both on- and
off-campus employers.

The TNU Events app is available for download on

iPhone and Android for free.

TNU Events app

revamped for 2016
BY Rebekah Warren
STAFF WRITER

revecca is revamping its use

of the TNU Events app to
promote campus activities and
track attendance.
The app aims to engage students in
events, encourage school spirit and
build relationships. Matt Spraker,
associate dean of students for
community life, developed the idea
after an interaction with a student
who missed an event.
[The student said] If I would have
known about it further in advance,
I would have put it on my work
schedule, said Spraker.
The app made its debut in
August 2015 but was expanded to
accommodate more events for this
fall semester.
We know when things are
happening, student event planners,
student leaders, a lot of people know
about events, said Spraker. Usually
students dont nd out about an event
until the week before. We thought
if we put a calendar out that was 30
days in advance, people could plan
their schedules.
The free app includes activities
happening all over campus including
SGA events, sporting events and Hub
shows, as well as information about
the events and their dates, times and
locations.
The app also allows for students
to search for events based on their
specic interests.
You can lter it to tailor to your
needs, said Michael Foster, all
student body president. If you want
an event that has food [or music], you
can search by food or by music.
For students, its an opportunity to
stay involved without the hassle of
keeping track of all the things going
on around campus.
[The app] is really easy to use,
said Anna Smith, a junior psychology
major. I think itll help me be more
involved because Ill know when and
where events are happening. With
everything else going on, it can be
hard to keep track of that.
Ultimately, SGA hopes that the
chance to socialize will lead to
a deeper sense of community at
Trevecca.
More people at more events leads
to more conversations and more
people getting to know each other,
said Foster. Thats an important part
of what Trevecca is supposed to be.

Sarah Crane, Anslie Ruckman, Michaela Slown and Nora Miller in Nineteen01.
BY Sydney Wisman
STAFF WRITER

hanges to the iWork

program now allow
students to have jobs
both on and o campus.
Founded by the Oce of
Student Employment in 2015,
iWork took the place of work
study jobs on campus as a way
to allow students to pay for
their tuition and earn money.
Students can now personally
decide how they manage their
nances through the program
by allotting a portion of their
salary to loans and keeping
another portion for spending
money.
Moving into this year, what
we did is we allowed students
to set [how much they put into
loans] based on what their
personal need is and what
their personal work hours are.
A student who is working 10
hours a week compared to 18
hours a week can contribute
dierently, said Ryan Jolley,
coordinator of the Oce of
Student Employment
The Oce of Student
Employment also increased
minimum wage to $8.50 an
hour for on-campus jobs.
In addition to on-campus
jobs, students can work

o campus and put that

money toward their tuition
bill. Students who work an
o-campus job will set up
a payment plan with the
nancial aid oce to help
pay their balance for school.
Job fairs on campus help
students nd jobs o campus
with partners such as FedEx,
Opryland Resort and AlleyCassety Truck Center. The
Alley- Cassety Truck Center,
which is within walking
distance from campus, has
shown interest in Trevecca
students and wants to hire.
There is always going to
be a nite number of jobs on
campus so its not as if we can
employ the entire campus but
we have the benet and beauty
of living in a thriving city
that is desperate for student
labor, said Tom Middendorf,
Assistant Vice President of
Academic Services.
Trevecca students are what
many employers want in an
employee at their businesses,
said Jolley. Our university is
unapologetically Christian, and
I think our student workers
the character that they display
is one of service and leadership
that models what we see in our
faith.

Students involved with iWork

participate in informational
sessions, meetings and
evaluations as part of their
commitment to the program.
The iWork sessions
certainly helped me when
it came time to make my
resume, said Rebekah
Jackson, junior psychology
major and participant in the
iWork program. One of the
speakers taught us to quantify
our professional successes
and that really helped me
make a professional looking
resume that capitalized on my
strengths as an employee.
Middendorf said it is
benecial to take advantage of
these opportunities on and o
campus.
If you practice the art
of work as a student at
Trevecca, I rmly believe
you will be more employable
when you leave Trevecca,
said Middendorf. Its like
exercising a muscle, and that
is the advantage we can give to
our students.
Any student can participate
in iWork.
The Oce of Student
Employment is located in the
CLCS.

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WELCOME WEEK 2016

Paintapalooza

BLOCK

Party
Students left Paintapalooza with
paint from head to toe.

Silent Disco
The block party in the Quad kicked off Welcome Week 2016s events.

Trevecca students, new and old, came

together for the Welcome Weeks
most popular event, Paintapalooza.
Students of all majors danced the
night away at the Welcome Week
silent disco. Photos by Marketing.

Students soaked volunteers in the dunk tank at the block party.

Summer Nights
Spiritual Deepening Week

Monday, Sept. 19
Community Conversation Q&A with
Jacob Edwards at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 20
Services at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 21
Services at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 22
Service at 9:30 a.m.

acob Edwards, lead pastor

of New Beginnings Church
in Lees Summit, Mo. will be
the guest speaker this year for
Spiritual Deepening Week.
His theme for the week is
Bodies of Hope: resurrection
in bodies broken, rejected and
dead.
He will be preaching out of the
Gospel narratives; the stories of
the life of Jesus and what we see
of bodies of hope in those Gospel
stories, Songer Gaines said.
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visit

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Trevecca students enjoyed taking photos with friends in the photo booth.

Trevecca seniors pose at the photo booth. Photos by Uy Nguyen.

Special thanks to SGA for a

great welcome week.

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POLITICS

Best Buddies Trevecca hosts presidential debate viewing

club enters
party to get students interested in election
its eighth year
BY Anali Frias & Bailey Basham
STAFF WRITER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Five years ago, Morgan McCranie

started her freshman year at Trevecca.
McCranie joined several clubs on campus
but it wasnt until she got involved with
Best Buddies that she found her place.
The rst event I went to was a match
party, and it was pumpkin carving. Thats
where I met my buddy Allea, and she
and I just hit it o. We talked a lot about
One Direction, and we really bonded over
that. I just remember leaving that event
and walking away with a friend feeling
this aha moment after nding where
I belonged at Trevecca, said McCranie,
senior special education major and president of Best Buddies.
Treveccas Best Buddies chapter is
heading into its eighth year on campus.
Members are a part of the Best Buddies Citizens Program, which matches an
adult with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDD) in a one-to-one friendship with a peer without a disability. This
buddy pair develops a friendship like
any other and promotes a more inclusive
world for adults with and without disabilities.
For McCranie, what made Best Buddies stand out from other organizations
on campus was the opportunity to be a
friend.
Best Buddies is all about friendship,
and everyone deserves a friend, said
McCranie. I felt very welcomed, and I
had something I could contribute to the
club and the community. I saw that it
could make a dierence, and there was a
great purpose to it. It went beyond feeling
like I had cool people to hang out. There
was a mission behind it that I wanted to
be a part of.
The club kicks o with a match party
where club members mingle and play
games. There, matches are made and
friendships are born. This year, the club is
implementing buddy families for people
who are interested but feel they cant
make a full commitment.
For people who cant meet the full
commitment of being in a buddy pair, we
could put them in a buddy family.
Ideally, that person would be paired
with a buddy pair. The purpose of that
would be for the buddies to still have
someone to hang out with if their buddy
couldnt come to an event. Youre paired
with one person, but in Best Buddies,
youre free to be friends with everybody,
said McCranie.
Sandra Habib, a sophomore at Trevecca
and vice president of Best Buddies, met

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump giving their most recent speeches. Photo taken from ABC.
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try to increase student participation in
the election.
New voters can register to vote this
week until Thursday, Sept 22 during
lunch and dinner in the Jernigan lobby.
Paperwork for both in and out of state
registration will be available.
Our campaign is called GoVoteTNU and its part of a larger campaign,
GoVoteTN, said Matt Spraker, associate
dean of students for community life.We
will have resources for those who dont
live in Tennessee. We will also have instructions on how to register to vote out
of state and request an absentee ballot.
Student development hopes to register, educate and mobilize students to
vote. Last fall, they exceeded their goal
of registering 100 students.
The oce of student development
is all about the holistic development of
students and encouraging them to be
civically engaged. Being a good member of society and a leader and servant
is important. This is one way to get
involved, said Spraker. The oce will
also host a debate viewing party this
month.
The rst debate between Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump will air on
Monday, Sept. 26, and Trevecca will host
a viewing party from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in

TSAC.
Following the debate, there will be a
brief discussion moderated by Lena Hegi
Welch, communication professor and
dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The discussion will allow students
the opportunity to talk about the major
points brought up during the presidential debate.
Since last year, Allison Clark has been
working with SGA and student development to plan the voters registration
drive and debate event. As voter education and registration coordinator for the
GoVoteTNU campaign, Clark is passionate about her fellow students registering
to vote.
I believe that one of our greatest
responsibilities as American citizens is
to exercise our right to vote. So many
people have dedicated their lives to their
country and this is just one small way
that we can give back. Pls, its an opportunity for our voices to be heard, said
Clark, senior early childhood education
major.
As a part of the GoVoteTNU program, there will also be a Monday night
chapel on Oct. 31 entitled Community
Conversation: Body Politics and a Vote
at Home campaign from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5
encouraging individuals out of state to
learn how to absentee vote.

How to vote
If you are an out-of-state
student and are unable to be
present at the polls, you can
complete an absentee ballot.
Absentee voting is conducted by mail, and sometimes in
person before Election Day.
Absentee ballot requirements
are different depending on
the state, however, after registering, anyone can go to
http://vote.org to request an
absentee ballot. There you will
sign up, download a form that
will allow you to request your
ballot.
Register to vote this week in
the Jernigan lobby at lunch
and dinner.

International club helps students nd home away from home

BY Alexis Garcia & Bailey Basham
STAFF WRITER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ven with all the organizations and clubs

on campus, it can be hard to nd your
place.
But for international students and those
interested in learning about other cultures,
Namaste might just be that place.
Created in 2007, Namaste is a club run
by and for international students and
any student, faculty or sta interested in
international culture. The club is dedicated
to help transition international students to
American culture by providing nancial,
educational and spiritual support.
Today the word international has a
dierent connotation when applied to
students. There are two types of international
studentsstudents who are in the U.S.
only for education and [who will] return
home once they are done and students
who were raised in the U.S. [by migrant
parents]. Namaste welcomes both types of
international students and anyone interested
in international culture, according to the
clubs website.
According to Roy Philip, faculty sponsor of
Namaste, the purpose of the club is fostering
community and providing a resource for

students transitioning to American culture.

Namaste was created as a help center
for international students. We have an
emergency fund where we buy things like
pencils, clothes and school essentials, and we
meet so we can help students get used to the
culture of America. [We also want to] expose
Trevecca students to international culture,
said Philip.
Asia Norman, junior marketing major and
current president of Namaste, joined the

club when she was a freshman at Trevecca.

Philip was her advisor, and he invited her to
a meeting. Norman said she has been in love
with the club every since.
Namaste [has such] beautiful, wonderful
people. We are all so dierent, and theres
always something to learn from one another.
Our experiences, cultures and values all
shape who we are, and we love getting to
share that, said Norman. All of us are from
such dierent parts of the world and [from

Members of Namaste at the rst club meeting of the year on Sept. 2. Photo provided by Roy Philip.

dierent] cultures and religions, but Namaste

is about how we all come together to form as
a single, but diverse group. I know Trevecca
really benets from having a club like this a
part of campus.
For students who are missing their homes,
Philip said Namaste oers a space of support
for those students to remember their culture
and share their struggles.
Students are homesick, and they want to
nd a place where they can remember their
culture because they are far from home. It is
a good opportunity to think about the good
old days. Its like a brotherhood/sisterhood
connection with the students, said Philip.
One of those students is Brazil native
Julianne Sorrow.
I have always been interested in other
cultures, so I joined the club hoping to be able
to experience more of that, said Sorrow, a
junior psychology major. The club has a very
inviting atmosphere, so you end up making a
ton of friends, and I always get to feel a little
more at home when I am around so many
other [people who arent from here].
Namaste meets twice a month in Mackey
102. Contact Philip at RPhilip@trevecca.edu
for more information about club meetings
and how to join.

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Trevecca names new chaplain

Students can miss no more than 20 percent of class time before being disenrolled from the class.

University attendance
policy for 2016-17 claried
No changes were made in
the university attendance
policy for the 2016-17
school year. The only
dierence for this year
is the method of taking
attendance in classes.
BY Bailey Basham
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

lass attendance at
Trevecca will be tracked
on Blackboard via a new
program.
Qwickly, a customizable
platform available through
Blackboard Learn, allows
professors to take attendance
without calling out the name of
every student in the class and
marking them present or absent
on a roll.
Students can download
the Blackboard app on their
smartphones or visit the
Blackboard website and checkin to their class by typing in a
code that becomes available to
the professor once he or she
opens the 5-minute check-in
window.
Whether a professor uses
the Qwickly method of taking
attendance is up to them.
We had a very cumbersome
method of taking attendance
last year and have moved to
a new technology that gives
faculty different methods of
tracking attendance, said Tom
Middendorf, associate vice
president for academic services.
We have larger class sizes so
we wanted to streamline efforts
for faculty to make this easier.
Think about itit could take 10
minutes of class time to actually
call roll in some classes. It is
up to faculty on how they want
to use the technology to assist
them in class.
With growing class sizes,
the new method of taking
attendance make managing
larger numbers of students

easier.
The attendance policy at
Trevecca, which states that
the total number of excused
and unexcused absences for
a student cannot exceed 20
percent of the total class time,
has not changed. Students will
still be expected to attend all
class sessions of courses for
which they are registered,
according to the Trevecca
website. Professors may use
individual policies that can be
found on the class syllabus. In

Absences
cannot exceed
over 20 percent
of class time
the case of an absence, it is the
responsibility of the student to
find out what they missed and
complete that work on their own
time.
According to Middendorf, the
most important part is that the
university is in compliance with
federal policy from Tennessee
Department of Education in
regards to the last date of a
students attendance.
The Department of
Education is interested in
knowing the last date of
attendance for students that
withdraw or stop out from the
university, said Middendorf.
This is relevant because any
university must have accurate
last date of attendance records
to determine if there are any
Title IV funds that must be
returned to the government
as a result of a student not
completing a semester. The
government wants to make sure
you are actually attending the
university since you took out a
loan for that purpose.

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Shawna Songer Gaines talks with Trevecca students after chapel. Photo provided by Annalizia Cordova

It was one those holy moments

that I could not have planned or
asked for, but there we were in
the presence of God. It was an
incredible moment.
Gaines, who has worked in a
variety of pastoral roles, most
recently served as the co-pastor
of Bakersfield First Church of
the Nazarene in Calif. with her
husband Tim Gaines, assistant
professor of religion.
The theme of chapel
programming this year is This
is My Body, which will focus on
Christs body being broken for us.
One of the plans that has formed
since Gainess start at Trevecca is
for a student-led worship service
called Soma.
Somawhich fits right in with
the theme of chapel as the Greek
word for bodyis a worship
service for students who have a
desire for a place of worship that
is about community, not chapel
credit. Jacob Bell, all student body
chaplain, will be working with
Gaines and a group of student
leaders to provide that opportunity
for fellowship and worship for
Trevecca students.
Soma is going to be very
student-led. I will provide some
guidance, but students will pick
the bands and the speakers. Its
just student-led and spirit-led,
said Gaines.
Alongside the This is My
Body theme, Gaines also hopes to
tie in some conversations on social
justice issues students at Trevecca
are committed to.
Ive always had a passion for
giving voices to the voiceless.
This year, thats going to look
like hearing from some of our
undocumented students and
creating some safe space for them
to be able to share their stories
and be received and welcomed
by this campus community. Its
going to look like talking about
issues around immigration and
talking about abuse and broken
bodies, said Gaines. When I
preach, a lot of my stories and
what I will challenge students to
do and think about will be related
to the heart of justice we see
throughout scripture, not because
I think thats an agenda I bring to
the task, but because justice is a
characteristic of God.
For Gaines, one of the most
exciting things about stepping into
the role of chaplain at the start of
a new year is beginning a journey
with a new class of freshmen.

Tim [Greens] words to me

were, This freshman class thats
coming in will know one chaplain,
and it will be you. Ill be the one to
walk with them in their four years.
Though Green stepped down
from the position as university
chaplain, Dan Boone, university
president, said Green will stay on in
some capacity to preach and advise.
[Tim] came to me last January
and told me that after 25 years, he
thought it was time for him to step
aside as chaplain. Hes still here
teaching and leading the school of
religion, and he and Shawna are
actually both serving as chaplains
this year. Its a transitional year.
Shawna will just be the more visible
of the two, said Boone. Tim and
I both 100 percent agreed on who
the next chaplain might be. We
were excited about that possibility.
With them having moved here from
California, she was in the process
of looking for a pastorate, so it was
perfect timing in every way.
Green wrote in a letter to
Boone that he never imagined
his Trevecca journey leading him
to a point of serving an entire
generation through chaplaincy. He
wrote that it was in Gods plan for
him to devote his time to being a
professor.
What a privilege it has been in
this role to engage with the most
remarkable students the world and
church has ever known. In recent
years and months, I have sensed
the Lords challenge upon my life
with an even deeper burden for and
commitment to preparing ministers
in an ever-changing world through
Trevecca, wrote Green. In
faithful response to this burden
and in seeking to give single focus
and undivided commitment to this
great task of clergy preparation
at Trevecca, I have requested
that another individual be invited
to take on the role of university
chaplain.

CHAPEL TIMES
Every other Monday

6:30 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday
9:30 a.m.

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OPINNION

Column: welcome from ASB president

Michael Foster, ASB president. Photo by Uy Nguyen.

BY Michael Foster
CONTRIBUTOR

When I look around campus, I see

the many wonderful faces of people
I care aboutpeople that go to this
school and share the same experiences that I do, but most of all, people
that have voices and stories just
waiting to be heard. Each individual

has a new and exciting story, and we

are all here at Trevecca to experience
those stories and to make new ones
together. It is an absolute honor and
privilege to be able to serve as all
student body president this year, and
I promise I will give my all for you.
As far as a vision goes for this school
year, I want this year to be legendaryone they talk about once we are
all old and bald. This campus holds
so much in it and that has never
made me more glad. I would like the
student body, faculty and staff to
know where they are from and where
they are going. I want people to know
that Trevecca is the most safe and
loving place that and full of people
to grow and walk with through life. I
also want students to know that their
voices matter. I want to be the eyes
and the ears for the people around
me. Always know that you can always
talk to me about anything on your
heart. I want you all to know that
God has brought you here to Trevecca
for a reason, whether you realize it or
not. My years at Trevecca have been
totally crazy, but worth so much. My
name is Michael Neal Foster, and I
am honored to be your all student
body president.

Nicole Hubbs
 (615) - 248 - 7725
 NHubbs@trevecca.edu

Things freshmen need to know

Trevecca Security

615-642-3523

Cafeteria hours

MondayFriday 7 a.m.7 p.m.

Saturday 11 a.m.12:30 p.m.; 5 p.m.6 p.m.
Sunday 12 p.m.1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.6 p.m.

Hub hours

MondayFriday 10:30 a.m. 11 p.m.

Sundays 4 p.m.11 p.m.

Cube hours

MondayFriday 10:30 a.m.2 p.m.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 5 p.m.8p.m.

The entrance to the nurses oce is on the backside of Georgia

Hall.
Trevecca SGA social media @tnusga
The rst six sessions with the counseling center are free. The
counseling center is located in the CLCS.
Clubs to join
American Marketing Association (Marketing Club)
Best Buddies
Board Game Club
Book Club
Debate Club
FCA
Futuro
Improv Club
Namaste
Moore Maniacs
RHA
Social Justice Club
Ultimate Frisbee Club
United Nashville
Young Life
For more information on how to join the above mentioned clubs,
students can contact Laura Wade at LCWade@trevecca.edu.

Column: how
to succeed in
real life
Ah, September. You are a welcome
sight after the heat of summer and the
craziness of August on a college campus. You let us know fall is on its way,
which means football, sweater weather
and the best season of the year (in my
opinion). Some of you are starting your
rst fall on the hill, while others of you
have just celebrated your last rst day
of school. And you might have taken a
picture to mark the occasion.
Regardless of where you are in your
journey at Trevecca, fall is a chance
start over with a brand new year. Its a
gift to begin anew. The school year can
wear you out. School starts in the fall,
and you hit the ground running into
the spring semester, and come May,
you are so in need of break you cant
imagine going on. Then blessed summer is ushered in and you can nally
rest and plan. Rejuvenated, fall is upon
you. It means new roommates, new
classes and a new routine. If you had a
hard summer, dicult school year or
strained relationships, the opportunity
to start over is a blessing.
So how will you use this gift? Here
are my top ve tips for a successful
semester:
1. Be wise with your time. When
you prioritize your responsibilities, it allows you to see where
you have time to t in friend
time and time for yourself. Remember big rocks rst from
INT 1100? When you get the
big things out of the way rst,
you can t the smaller rocks
in the remaining time.
2. Get involved. Get involved. There
are so many college experiences that happen outside of the
classroom. Get involved with
the Commuter Council, SGA,
RHA, Intramurals, etc. You can
even read about some. There is
something for everyone and you
will meet some awesome people.
Be present in this season, and

invest in it.
Look ahead. Look ahead. Think
about how you want the end
your semester to look. Do you
want to turn in assignments
early? Do you have a GPA you
are trying to maintain for a
scholarship? Identify the goals
you need to accomplish this
semester and set steps in place
now to work toward them.
4. Take care of yourself. When you
get overwhelmed with assignments or just life in general, step
away and rest. If you are introverted, you need time to yourself
to recharge. If you are extroverted, you need to get with friends
to do something fun. Get o
campus for a little while, and do
something you enjoy. You will
come back refreshed and ready
to take on the day.
5. Pray. Yes, really. God cares about
your experience as a student.
He wants you to succeed. Go
to the Lord in prayer with your
burdens and your joys. Ask Him
what you need to do this year
and He will provide answers,
reassurance and peace. His grace
is new every morning, as well as
every fall semester.
I oer these tips to you, dear TNU
student, but I write them for myself,
too. I need this fresh start, too. God
gives us the gift of seasons. Seasons of
life and literal weather changing seasons. Live presently in this one.
Nicole Hubbs is the coordinator of
career services. To get all your burning questions answered by our resident life and professionalism expert,
email Hubbs at nhubbs@trevecca.
edu, and dont forget to check out the
next installment of her column, How
to Succeed in Real Life, in the October
issue of the TrevEchoes.
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VOLLEYBALL

SPORTS

Trevecca welcomes new

womens basketball coach

Katelyn Atkinson, senior exercise science major, broke a 15-year record at the beginning of September. Photo
courtesy of TNU Trojans.

Volleyball team starts season strong

with senior breaking a 15-year record
BY Bailey Basham
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Chad Hibdon coaches the womens basketball team in the locker room. Photo by Annalizia Cordova

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Van Atta, a graduate of Trevecca, class of

1979, resigned as Lady Trojans head basketball
coach in April. He accepted a head coaching job
with the University of Montevallo in Montevallo,
Ala.
During his time at Trevecca, Van Atta posted
a 216-120 record. He led the Lady Trojans to
their only National Championship game in 2008.
His team was also dominant in Great Midwest
Athletic Conference (G-MAC) competition with a
42-12 record.
Gary was one of our own, a Trevecca
graduate. He loved Trevecca, and thats going to
be very hard to replace. He was very well loved
by a lot of people, said Mark Elliott, director of
athletics.
Incoming head coach Chad Hibdon will be the
Lady Trojans fth head basketball coach and has
a history of winning as well.
Hibdon has a huge, huge upside. I want to
keep him as long as possible. Hes the kind of
guy you could see at an SEC school, said Elliott.
This is a home run hire.
Hibdon comes to the Hill with most of
his experience on the high school level. He
coached 10 seasons at Blackman high school in
Murfreesboro, Tenn. where he turned around
the girls basketball program. He left Blackman
just one win shy of 200, with an overall record
of 199-98. In his nal two seasons, the Lady
Blaze won Tennessee Secondary School Athletic
Association state titles in 2014 and 2015 with an
overall record of 66-3.
Everyone in the basketball world in Middle
Tennessee knows who he is. I think, win or lose,
hes going to be a great t here, said Greg Ru,
director of sports information.
Most recently, Hibdon served as head

basketball coach for Truett-McConnell College

in Cleveland, Ga. Hibdon went 14-15 in one
season at Truett-McConnell, setting their
single-season record for wins.
When you meet him, he is organized,
serious and detailed-orientated, said Elliott.
He commands respect. Some people have it,
and some people dont. He carries himself in
such a way that he commands respect [without
demanding it].
Hibdon is a graduate of Middle Tennessee
State University and Lipscomb University and
is very familiar to the Nashville area. Hibdons
return back to the Middle Tennessee area was
a small factor in coming to Trevecca. Originally
from Murfreesboro, Hibdon lived in northern
Georgia this past year.
For us to go down and sort of slow down
living in the northern Georgia mountains and
to get some quality family time was really a
blessingthats something I really valued. We
were also away from family, grandparents,
aunts, uncles and cousins which was sort of a
negative. But to be able to come back home and
live with our immediate family is exciting, said
Hibdon.
Hibdon is living in the small Tennessee town
of Whitehouse, combining his familys desired
small town life with his work in the city of
Nashville.
We love it here. Everything weve been
introduced to, including the people and
situations, have exceeded my expectations. Until
the good Lord says to go in a dierent direction,
purple and white is who we are, said Hibdon.
The Lady Trojans begin their season Nov.
5 at home with a scrimmage against Midway
University.

enior volleyball player Katelyn

Atkinson broke a 15-year record for
S
number of career kills at Trevecca.

The reigning Great Midwest Athletic

Conference (G-MAC) player of the year
surpassed record-holder Michelle Arend
Plummers 1,369 kills and her own
personal best of 1,370 on a Sept. 9 match
against the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
Atkinson, an exercise science major and
the only senior on the volleyball team this
year, entered the 2016-17 season as the
active career leader in kills in the NCAA
Division II.
Katelyn is at the top of every
opponents scouting report on us, said
John Radzminiowski, assistant coach.
She was the most ecient point scorer
in the conference last year and one of
the tops in the nation, as well as a top 10
blocker in the G-MAC. She also cracked
the top 10 in the conference in digs.
Katelyn does it all for us.
Her coaches are quick to point out that
Atkinson prioritizes the team over her
own success.
You always say you can replace
everybody, but theres nobody that can
come in and do what she has done in
her career here, said head coach Jayme
Crowley. Its an incredible, incredible
feat. It will be a long time before
somebody can break that record.
For Atkinson, its not all about the wins
and the success.

Its pretty exciting to be able to break

a record that was held for 15 years, but
I just want the team to be the best that
we can and for my teammates, as well
as myself, to strive to be excellent in
everything that we do, said Atkinson. I
have had a lot of great teammates over
the years who have helped me reach that
goal.
Though Atkinson is a valuable asset
for the team this season, Crowley said
everyone on the team holds an important
role.
We returned most of our starters and
added a great class of four freshmen and
two transfers. Sophomore Clare Taylor is
currently right at the top of our team with
Katelyn oensively. Both of those players
stay on the oor all six rotations. Clare
was on the G-MAC all-freshman team
last year and was the player of the week at
the end of the season as well. We will be
pretty reliant on her abilities this season,
said John Radzminiowski, assistant coach.
Sophomores Janessa Hodge and Alex
Reuter, who led the G-MAC in blocks per
set last year, and junior Ashleigh Lozier
are also moving up in the ranks this year.
According to Radzminiowski, Reuter is a
primary oensive weapon for the team.
Hodge is expected to settle in oensively
this season, and Lozier, to add to the
defensive strategy on the court.
I know that we all want to repeat as
G-MAC Champions. I would also like to
start asserting ourselves in our Region.
More importantly, though, is committing
to the process as a team. We want to be
better at the end of this season than when
we started, said Radzminiowski.

Trevecca cross country to host first meet

BY Andrew Preston
SPORTS EDITOR

Treveccas mens and womens cross country team

will host their rst ever meet at Percy Warner Park.

The Trevecca Trojans will host 10 teams at Percy

Warner Park for a cross country meet on Sept. 24.
Were hosting the meet where we always
practice over at Percy Warner. Its a great chance
for us to grow as a team. We want this meet to grow
to be a really high prole Division-II meet, said
Austin Selby, head coach.
Percy Warner Park is slated to host the 2017
Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC)
championships.
Cross country is a program for us that is hard
to do as much for as we would like, because they
compete away from here. They arent on campus;

they are usually out of the state competing. This is a

great opportunity for us to perform well. Its a great
course and great eld, said Greg Ru, director of
sports information.
This season the Trojans are led by senior runners
Josh Durham, Ben Moroney and Logan Rodgers. On
the womens team, seniors are Willow Moore and
Morgan Voyles. On the whole, 26 athletes make up
the cross country teams12 women and 14 men.
The goal [for this season] is always to win the
G-MAC. From there we want to nish high at the
regional meet and see if that gets us to nationals,
said Selby.
Although the scheduled season is short, the
training, practice and preparation to compete for a

NCAA (D-2) school is not.

There are always smaller goals for each
individual runner. They need to build on what
theyve done in previous seasons, said Selby.
The meet at Percy Warner Park is the Trojanss
rst home meet and the rst chance in the season
for the runners to really compete against other
runners around the nation.
Its our home meet so we want to win it, but
there is good competition coming. Itll be the rst
meet where Caroline Hampton races. She is the rst
Trevecca [runner] to ever compete at the national
championships. Itll be the rst time we kind of cut
her loose. Both teams are running at full strength,
said Selby.

Womens soccer team shoots for a record-breaking season

BY Andrew Preston
SPORTS EDITOR

he 2016-17 Lady Trojans soccer season will

be marked with new opponents and high
expectations.
Last season, the Lady Trojans ended their season
with a 2-1 loss against Cedarville. The team set
many goals for this year one of which is beating
Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC)
favorite Cedarville.
The team ended last season with a 9-7-3 record
overall (7-5-2). They earned their way into the
playos as the fth seed with dominating play in
October. They turned their season around in early
October by stringing together four wins in ve
matches. On the whole, they won seven times in
their nal month of play.
For head coach Mark Foster, the success his team
sees on the eld is important, but the development
of his team into Christian-scholars is key.

I expect us to be good students. We have a

proud history of having a high team GPA, of being
Academic All-Americans and Academic AllConference players. We are students before we are
athletes, said Foster.
The spiritual formation and growth that the team
encounters also have a major impact on the season.
The goal of our season is to all grow spiritually
me as the coach, the assistant coaches and the
girls. Thats what makes Trevecca womens soccer
dierent. We have spiritual, academic and athletic
goals, said Foster.
The Lady Trojans graduated three seniors from
the team last season most notably, Anna Homan.
Homan ended her career as the all-time leader in
single season goals with 13. She scored 30 goals in
her entire career, placing her behind Brooke Gann
(31) for second most all time. With such an oensive
weapon gone, the Lady Trojans are looking for other
leaders to step up one particularly familiar with
Trojan fans.

We lost one Homan, but we gained another,

said head athletic director, Mark Elliott.
Leah Homan joins the squad eager to contribute
in many ways. Unlike her older sister, Leah aims
to improve as a Trojan on the defensive side of the
eld.
Everyone is expecting Leah to come in and be
another Anna Homan, but Leah is a completely
dierent player in her own right, said Foster.
Greg Ru, director of sports information, echoed
that Homan is going to bring dierent things to
the team that sister Anna.
Theyre two dierent people. She plays hard,
but shes a dierent type of player. Shes going to
impact the game dierently, but maybe just a much
and maybe more over time, said Ru.
While Cedarville is the favorite to claim the
G-MAC this season, the Trojans, along with several
other schools, have competed well and come close
to winning the conference.
For womens soccer, its a really tough

conference, so to focus just on one team, I think

thatd be crazy. Of course we do believe in ourselves
though, said Foster. Anyone in the top four can
and probably win the G-MAC this year.
In the pre-season G-MAC rankings, the
Lady Trojans were chosen to nish fourth best.
Historically, this an accolade that is hit or miss in
terms of predicting the nal outcome of the season.
I think the pre-season [G-MAC] rankings had
us fourth. Which is about a ranking or two low for
what our team should accomplish. We should be in
the mix for the nal four. We can beat Ursuline and
Davis & Elkins, said Elliott.
During the course of the season, the Lady Trojans
will face a new conference opponent in Malone
University. Malone University (Canton, Ohio) takes
the place of Salem International (Salem, W. Va.) who
is now competing as an independent university,
unaliated with any conference.
The Lady Trojans are currently 3-3 (2-2) on the
year, good for second place in the conference.

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FEATURES

First generation Trevecca graduate hired as

diversity coordinator
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Brodrick Thomas, coordinator of student engagement and diversity. Photo by Annalizia Cordova.
American studentsits critically important to have
someone thats watching these groups of students and how
they mesh into the life of the campus, said Boone. Youre
looking across America right now, watching on college
campuses signicant unrest from minority groups that feel
like no one is paying attention to them. I really want our
minority students to feel like they belong here, and that they
belong deeply.
Thomass roles at Trevecca have been diverse. In April of
2012, he began working in plant operations before he served

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the weight of nancial issues, legal status or racial biases

that need the same kind of help he needed when he was in
college.
As Treveccas rst coordinator of student engagement and
diversity, it is Thomas goal to make sure those students get
the help they need.
Thomas has three goals for this year in his position:
to build a community at Trevecca that represents each
population of students; to prepare students for the
opportunities that may come to them and to extend the kind
of community he hopes to build Trevecca into the greater
Nashville community.
I missed a heck of a chance to play football for AuburnI
still think about it every day when I listen to the ght song
in the mornings while I work out, just to remind myself.
When I listen to that every morning, it reminds me of the
opportunity I missed because I wasnt in a situation to be
able to focus because of where I and my mom were. My goal
is to make sure students dont miss their opportunities,
said Thomas.
Thomas hopes to implement changes at Trevecca that
involve helping minority students who feel like their voices
are overshadowed be heard.
Were going to restructure our community to make sure
we build bridges to each culture. We get to educate all these
bright young people with the goal of sending them back to
wherever theyve come from and having those students heal
the places theyre from with the ideas that are taught here,
said Thomas. If we can extend our community of not letting
our dierences come between us, thats going to grow and
spread like wildre. We can do something powerful that way
if we dont just stay on our hill.
For schools aliated with the Council for Christian
Colleges & Universities, there has been a growing interest in
matters of diversity and inclusion.
The church is a multi ethnic, multicultural, multinational
body, and as such, our campuses need to be places where
students, faculty and administrators alike can interact in
meaningful ways with the entire diverse body of the church.
This often means navigating sensitive and sometimes
painful dierences in a manner that reects the love of
Christwhich is where [coordinators of diversity] come
in, said Morgan Feddes, communications specialist for the
Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. By working
alongside other administrators, they can help a campus
come together to be an inclusive, welcoming place to all
students, no matter their racial, ethnic, socioeconomic or
national backgrounds.
Having someone in the role of coordinator of diversity at
Trevecca is critically important, said Dan Boone, university
president.
The simple reality that when you bring in international
students who have a tremendous cultural transition to
makeundocumented students who are coming into a
very odd setting for them, Hispanic students and African

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- Brodrick Thomas, coordinator of diversity

as an advisor for students in the School of Graduate and

Continuing Studies.
[And now], somehow Trevecca found me worthy to step
into this role, said Thomas. I am tremendously excited
about this position. Ive got to help someone. Im in the
position to, and I tell myself every day that Im living the
dream because theres no way I should be in Nashville right
now hanging out with cool students. I should be in a wood
cabinet [shop] in Clay County, Ala., whittling my days away,
xing cabinets with my uncles, my cousins and my best
friends that are there now. I try to make the most of every

opportunity that God has given me, and this is the position
where I can help other people so they dont miss their
opportunities. Thats my main focus in this job.
Tom Middendorf, associate vice president of academic
services, said that it is his hope for Thomas position to
provide more holistic educational opportunities at Trevecca.
We can easily fool ourselves into believing that a good
education comes from reading textbooks and simply
accomplishing classroom assignments, but I believe a good
education is also what happens outside of the classroom.
Students learn from an amazing faculty here at Trevecca, but
they also have the opportunity to learn from one another.
How do we live in community when we have dierences?
How do we deal with conict? How do we reconcile with one
another? Students are part of the educational process for one
another. We educate each other in a deeper way when we
have a more diverse perspective.
Thomas will also work with admissions in the recruitment
process to more diversity in the student body. He is also
working to build a diversity council made of African
American, Latino, undocumented, white and international
students.
I dont subscribe to the idea that people pull themselves
up by their bootstraps. People need help, and I think thats
why God has poured into us and pulled us through certain
thingsso we can reach back and grab other people to try
to help them out of their situations, said Thomas. When
Tom Middendorf came to me and said he thought I would
be perfect for this role, knowing my background and my
past, I just felt I had to. This is one of the things, when I look
over my past and what Ive been through, I think this is the
perfect position for me.

Best Buddies club enters its eighth year at Trevecca

Best Buddies club on campus at a game night event with Tennessee

Hall. Photo by Bailey Basham.

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her buddy Jason at last years match party.

Last year, me and Jason played this game together
and it was so funny. He said, I want Sandra to be my
buddy, and thats how we became buddies, Habib
said.
As part of the club, peer buddies are required to
contact their buddy once a week and hang out twice
a week, though they are not limited to these requirements.
Its different for every buddy. Typically, me and
Allea hang out more than two times a week. We text
every day. We love to go out to eat and go to movies.
McCrainie said. Its just the typical things I would do

with my friends.
Habib and Jason hang out as much as they can. She
likes to do activities based on what he likes.
Jason loves plays and musicals. When Trevecca has
a play going on, I try to bring him. He plays baseball so
Im going to one of his baseball games too, said Habib.
For the buddies involved, one of the most valuable
aspects of the club is the opportunity to be social.
The biggest benefit for the buddies is that they are
gaining normal social experiences that they deserve but
that they arent given a lot of times because they
have disabilities. Through those experiences, theyre
getting to learn social skills and what it means to be
in a friendship, said McCranie. It gives them more
confidence in themselves because they realize there
are people that care about them and love them. Theyre
being recognized as a person who deserves a loving
friendship.
Habib said from her experience, she leaves just as
impacted as the buddies.
Best Buddies has taught me a lot, and I have gained
so much, Habib said. You may feel awkward at first,
but if youre respectful and if you just want to make
friends, then this is where you should be.
Every year, Best Buddies has a prom for all of the
schools involved with the program in Nashville.
We both love getting our nails done every year before prom. We have a tradition of going to get our nails
done and then having a sleepover, and the next day
well get ready to go to prom, said McCranie.
Contact Morgan McCranie at MSMccranie@trevecca.
edu for information on how to get involved with Treveccas Best Buddies chapter.

Morgan McCranie, senior special education major and president of

Best Buddies, with her buddy Allea Binge. Photo by Bailey Basham.